Similarities Between West Egg And The Great Gatsby

Gatsby’s stubbornness to rekindle his past love causes his to spiral out of control. He would constantly try to put his needs aside in order to fulfill hers. Gatsby is blind to the fact that Daisy does not have the same feelings towards him. Daisy was only going with Gatsby in order to get back at Tom for having multiple affairs. Gatsby is still not in the same social circle because Daisy is a part of West Egg, which is old money; inherited money, while Gatsby is a part of East Egg, which is new money. This naivety from Gatsby causes him to be blatantly unaware of everything that is happening around him. “Gatsby, just like the brand new monstrosity he inhabits, is ‘flashy’: he wears pink suits, gaudy shirts, and drives an extravagant Rolls Royce. Despite all of their obvious wealth, the nouveau riche are imposters—cheap materialistic imitations of the American Dream. They can never possess the Buchanans's old-wealth taste, epitomized by their "cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay" (4). On Long Island, aristocratic grace and elegance cannot be purchased, only inherited. Try as they may, the inhabitants of West Egg will never be able to acquire true opulence. Daisy Buchanan's white roadster and "spotless" flowing gowns,

Jay Gatsby and Benjamin Franklin share the view that one’s affluence and one’s display of it are the measures of one’s success in achieving his goal. If one truly has the money required to be affluent, there will be no need to display that wealth because others will inherently know that one is rich. In fear of being thought to be poor, Gatsby and Franklin both try to exhibit whatever amount of money they may have even if they do not posses the wealth they truly desire. Franklin searches for items of monetary value in order to accumulate the resources necessary to make a reputation for his name, while Gatsby seeks to acquire the “old wealth” of East Egg in order to win the heart of his loved one, Daisy. The description of Gatsby’s personal library reveals that he only throws elaborate parties in order to prove to Daisy that he has acquired the money necessary to support a relationship with her, when in reality he can never achieve that status. During Nick’s first visit to Gatsby’s mansion for one of his lavish parties,

In the Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald creates a division between the East egg who are inheritably rich and the West Egg, who are newly rich and have worked for their money. Although they are both wealthy cities, there are many differences portrayed throughout the book. The East Egg snobbishly rejects the West Egg since it lacks traditional social conventions they have always lived. The two cities are used to emphasize the character development in the story and show the struggle of Gatsby trying to be with someone from a different class structure.

Gatsby earned all of his money for Daisy after he faced her rejection in the form of her marriage to Tom because of his lack of wealth and inability to provide. The way that Gatsby gained his copious amounts of wealth was through bootlegging. This required that he associate with rough men of society. Daisy is repulsed by what Nick describes as the “Sinister faces, the faces of Wolfsheim’s people”(Fitzgerald, pg. 143) because they lack class. Describing Wolfsheim’s people as having Sinister faces allows for the reader to realize the flagrant evil behind the way that Wolfsheim and his people obtain their wealth such as bootlegging or fixing the world series. This snobbish behavior shows that security not only means that someone can provide a steady income but that they can also provide a stable and high class life. East Egg is commonly known as old money and has extremely high class wealth while West Egg is a mix and the wealthy people there usually come from new money which is commonly associated with bootlegging. The first time that Daisy is invited over to Gatsby’s after meeting at Nick's for tea, Gatsby proudly gives her a tour of what he has built for her. While on this tour Gatsby goes to his dresser which overlooks a balcony that Daisy is under and starts throwing his beautiful silk shirts over the balcony towards Daisy. This blatant behavior shows his affluency. As he kept throwing the shirts over the balcony Daisy saw financial security flying over the balcony that she could have had with Gatsby while also having love and she longs for this yet all she can verbalize is “‘They’re such beautiful shirts she sobbed,’ her voice muffed in the thick folds.”(Fitzgerald, pg. 92) When she says this, she is so overcome by emotions and regret that she

The realization of a person’s dreams may be the threshold between the falsehood and reality of them. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, he shows the difference between the west and east eggs and the dreams the residents have. Dreams are complex illusions that give a falsity in life so that people can escape into their fantasies or paradises.

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there are two main settings in book that are symbolic, East Egg and West Egg. East Egg represents old money and West Egg represents new money. The characters who reside in the West Egg are Nick and Gatsby. The characters who reside in the East Egg are Tom and Daisy. East is described as “... who always gathered in a corner and flipped up their noses like goats at whosoever came near” (Fitzgerald 61). This quote means that people in the East Egg are more snobby, greedy, and mean from those who live in West Egg because they have families who had

In The Great Gatsby, all the characters are, in one way or another, attempting to become happier with their lives. The characters in the novel are divided into two groups: the rich upper class and the poorer lower class(West egg and East egg) though the main characters only try to make their lives better, the American dream they are all trying to achieve is eventually ruined by the harsh reality or life.

The Great Gatsby occurs during the 1920s in America. There are two different social classes, the rich (which live in the eggs) and the poor ( which lives in the the Valley of Ashes). During the twenties it was a time of a dying American Dream. Most people praised wealth and materialism.The east and west egg is across from each other separated by water. The east egg represents

The next setting, East Egg, is known in The Great Gatsby as an area in Long Island where the super rich people with old money live. Old money is money attained plenty of years back by wealthy families and passed down to heirs, and this leads into the characters, Tom and Daisy Buchanan, who reside in East Egg. Tom is the epitome of East Egg as he is extremely wealthy because of the family he was born into. Similarly, Daisy marries Tom meaning marrying into that same wealth. The result of Daisy choosing Tom is directly connected to Tom living in East Egg. As East Egg reflects wealth, it is to no surprise that Daisy chooses Tom, who lives there. This obviously insinuates that Daisy is a gold-digger and

The novel ¨The Great Gatsby”, by F. Scott Fitzgerald takes place in East Egg and in West Egg. Tom Buchanan and Daisy Buchanan and a married couple living in East Egg. Jay Gatsby is a character trying to reunite with Daisy Buchanan after 5 years who lives in West Egg. Nick is a character that helps Jay Gatsby reunite with Daisy his cousin. In this novel, The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald suggests that the American Dream is pointless through his depiction of Gatsby's love life.

In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby’s dream is to win back Daisy’s love and create a long and happy life with her, but his dream ends up being an inevitable failure, as both Gatsby and Daisy come from different social statuses, which in the end causes Daisy to not choose Gatsby. Daisy comes from East Egg as, “her voice is full of money...that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it...high in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl…” (120) Whereas, Gatsby comes from West Egg, and the way he got to his lavish lifestyle is by being a bootlegger, “[himself] and this Wolfsheim [buying] up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter.” (133) Gatsby's attempt at repeating the past and getting

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald constantly alludes to 1920’s American life. The story mainly addresses the loss of the American dream and the rise of materialism. East and West Egg correlate with how the east is plagued by lack of morals while the midwest and new-rich still have integrity. Nick, the narrator, comes from old-wealth but the midwest has taught him morals which is why he despises the East. With the 18th amendment came the rise of acquiring money illegally, hence Gatsby’s wealth.

In the story, there is a distinction between West Egg, where Long Island is located, and East Egg on the other side. The people who live in West Egg are considered to be the recently developed wealthy individuals. Moreover, separated by a long river, on the other side is East Egg where people made of generations of wealth live. However, Fitzgerald tells us, in Nicks point of view, directly that East Egg is the wealthier, more elite of the two. Despite all his money, Gatsby lives in West Egg, suggesting that he has not been able to complete his transformation into a member of the social upper class society. Tom and Daisy are apart of the East Egg society being an example of a typical couple living there being overindulged. We learn that Daisy being a mother is not responsible or mature for her age. She introduces her daughter to her friends for a few minutes and then claims “ momma wanted to show you off.” This shows that Daisy being an East sider has taken a lot for granted, she has a nurse to take care of the daughter instead of being a mother herself. The distance that separates Gatsby from Daisy lies across the span of water between their houses – the very distance between West Egg and East Egg, representing a barrier between the two lovers.

Personally, Nick attempted to sell bonds in New York throughout the time of the book. He failed in his ambitions, conveying that not everyone succeeds in how they want to live their life. However, Nick’s cousin, Daisy, is unlike him, in the fact that her character is overindulged throughout the story. She is described by Gatsby as someone who has a “voice full of money”. This indicates that she has never known poverty, and because of this, she is somewhat antagonistic to the American dream. Throughout the story, she makes decisions that would secure her wealth as opposed to love. Gatsby conveyed his love to her, but she chose to deny him not because she did not love him back, but because she was happy with her life as it was. Fitzgerald has designed these characters to all convey their idea of the American dream through their actions and words and it is clear that some of those in the narrative are the realistic variations on where the “dream” can take those who seek it.

Varying social standings remain prevalent, and individuals in each social class persistently seek the American Dream. Despite many interpretations of the American Dream, F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby portrays it as rising to a higher social status in the novel The Great Gatsby. Gatsby longs to achieve his American Dream by attempting to rekindle his relationship with a woman of inherited money, which will raise his social status because he has newly earned money. The characters are defined by where their wealth originates. In society, earned money exists as inferior to inherited money, and those who have earned their money “live in the less fashionable” part of Long Island, the East Egg (Fitzgerald 5). Gatsby’s desire to rise in social status alongside his longing for both the American Dream and the love of Daisy Buchanan is unattainable because of Daisy’s marital commitment to Tom. Additionally, Gatsby’s escape from his current social status proves impossible because he cannot rid himself of the past and that he has earned his wealth, ultimately causing his downfall. Defining the novel, Gatsby’s downfall, resulting from his attempt to rise in social status, further emphasizes the unrealistic nature of rising in social status if the escape involves a superficial relationship and an attempt to escape the past.